FF:ETMA115 Open air museums. - Course Information
ETMA115 Open-air Museums
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Daniel Drápala, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Daniel Drápala, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course focuses on problems protection of folk culture, history of open-air musems, elemental theories going to building open-air museums and its working today.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students should be able to understand the specifics of open-air museums, their main development periods and metamorphoses of the open-air museum construction concepts, relationship between those museums and the monument preservation, their basic principles of functioning, the typology of the open-air museums, and their ways of presentation. Students should be able to apply the acquired knowledge to individual open-air museums and specific sub-issues.
- Syllabus
- introduction, terminology used, typology of open-air museums,
- historical preconditions, predecessors of open-air museums,
- beginnings of open-air museums in Europe (A. Haselius, Skansen, Scandinavian countries) and in Central Europe,
- projects of national open-air museums, development of the conservation concept and the open-air museum concept,
- open-air museums of local history built and planned in the Czech Republic,
- other types of open-air museums in the CR,
- types of folk culture presentation in open-air museums,
- open-air museum as a laboratory of traditional technologies,
- models of conceptual plan and scenario development in open-air museum
- Literature
- required literature
- BRYOL, Radek, Jan DOLÁK, Lenka DRÁPALOVÁ, Jana KOUDELOVÁ and Jiří LANGER. Muzea v přírodě v České republice : teoretická a metodická východiska. Rožnov pod Radhoštěm: Národní muzeum v přírodě, 2020, 79 stran. ISBN 9788087210734. info
- DRÁPALA, Daniel. Definice muzea v přírodě a limity jejího naplňování (The definition of an open-air museum and the limits of its fulfilment). In Eva Kuminkova. Muzea v přírodě. Jedinečná cesta muzejnictví. První. Rožnov pod Radhoštěm: Národní muzeum v přírodě, 2019, p. 12-30. ISBN 978-80-87210-72-7. info
- recommended literature
- RENTZHOG, Sten. Open air museums : the history and future of a visionary idea. Translated by Skans Victoria Airey. [Stockholm]: Carlssons, 2007, xii, 530. ISBN 9789179482084. info
- DRÁPALA, Daniel. K poslání muzeí v přírodě při prezentaci tradiční lidové kultury (Mission of the open-air museums in the traditional folk culture presentation). In Museum vivum. Sborník Valašského muzea v přírodě v Rožnově pod Radhoštěm. 2. 1st ed. Rožnov pod Radhoštěm: Valašské muzeum v přírodě v Rožnově pod Radhoštěm, 2006, p. 7 - 13. ISBN 978-80-239-8984-7. info
- Evropská muzea v přírodě. Photo by Jiří Langer. Vyd. 1. Praha: Baset, 2005, 895 s. ISBN 8073400693. info
- Československá muzea v přírodě. Edited by Jiří Langer - Jaroslav Štika. Vyd. 1. Martin: Osveta, 1989, 160, [14]. ISBN 8021700394. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, class discussion, excursions, homeworks, reading.
- Assessment methods
- Semestr paper, participation in excursions (min. 2), written examination.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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